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TIL the song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is about a 1971 incident at a Frank Zappa concert at Montreaux Casino where an audience member fired a flare into the ceiling causing a fire that destroyed the venue.

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BkPW TIL the term “Hippie” is derived from the term “Hipster,” which described jazz fans in the 1940’s. Hipsters were known for pot smoking and sarcasm.
R5xN9 Today I learned that the actor Keegan-Michael Key had two biological half-siblings (one of whom was comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie) and Key didn't know about either of them until after both of them had died.
PYRO TIL Indian Companies are now outsourcing jobs back to America
xyw0 TIL an African man killed a lion with his bare hands before bleeding out and dying at a hospital after being attacked by hyenas
OoVAR As well as extroverts and introverts, there are "ambiverts" who lie somewhere in the middle and actually, researchers predict about two-thirds of us are ambiverts.